eternize

English

Etymology

From Middle French éterniser.

Verb

eternize (third-person singular simple present eternizes, present participle eternizing, simple past and past participle eternized)

(transitive) To make or render eternal.
(transitive) To prolong indefinitely.
(transitive) To immortalize; to make eternally famous.
- c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], part 1, 2nd edition, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, OCLC 932920499; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act I, scene ii:
  at leaſt admit vs libertie,
  Euen as thou hopſt to be eternized,
  By liuing Aſias mightie Emperour.
- 1595, Edmund Spenser, Sonnet LXXV:
  My verse your virtues rare shall eternize […]

Translations

To make or render eternal

Bulgarian: увековечавам (bg) (uvekovečavam)

References

“eternize”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989, →ISBN.